如他们本周在于华盛顿举行的美国化学学会会议上介绍的那样,他们已开始分析尸体的气味,目标是机器能自动操作侦测过程。
As they outlined to this week's meeting of the American Chemical Society, in Washington, DC, they have been analysing the smell of corpses, with a view to automating the process of detecting them.
常规的旧书鉴定方法需要提取样本进行检测,这会进一步损害书籍,而分析这些旧书散发出来的气味则完全是无害的。
Conventional analysis techniques require small samples of the work for testing, further damaging the book. But analyzing the gases coming off of the old books is noninvasive.
这些研究者忘记提及的是,呼吸并不是适用于化学分析的唯一生物气味来源。
What the researchersdelicately forget to mention is that the breath is not the only source ofbiological aromas suitable for chemical analysis.
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